While the current literature recognises the capacity of diverse methodologies to provide informative understandings of health-promoting schools (HPS), there is a paucity of examples to show how different research strategies can be used. We address this knowledge gap by examining the significance of a critical race theory–social constructivist bricolage or hybrid methodology for advancing understanding of the HPS frameworks. A critical race theory–social constructivist bricolage can provide a credible stance from which to study HPS, particularly in relation to people of colour. However, because the framework only weakly addresses the more practical aspects of the research process, we conclude by considering the role of action research as a complementary research approach.
This paper focuses upon the case of one early career teacher, Don, a participant in a longitudinal study examining the transfer of learning about literacy practices from pre-service teacher education to the classrooms of secondary content area teachers. We followed Don from his B. Ed. program into his first two years of teaching in an Indigenous community in northern Canada, with a focus on how his pedagogical content knowledge and his culturally relevant pedagogical practices developed. This case traces Don’s journey from his goals and plans at the end of his teacher education program, through his feelings of uncertainty near the end of his first year of teaching, to his growing confidence in his second year of teaching.Cet article s’intéresse au parcours de Don, un enseignant en début de carrière et participant d’une étude longitudinale examinant le transfert des apprentissages en termes de pratiques en alphabétisation, de la formation des futurs enseignants à l’enseignement d’un contenu pédagogique en classe de secondaire. Nous avons suivi le parcours de Don dès son programme de baccalauréat en éducation et pendant ses deux premières années d’enseignement au sein d’une communauté autochtone du Nord canadien. Nous nous intéressons particulièrement à ses connaissances pédagogiques liées au contenu et aux pratiques pédagogiques culturellement pertinentes qu’il a développées. Cette étude de cas explore l’aventure de Don, de ses buts et objectifs à la fin de son programme de formation en enseignement, en passant par l’insécurité ressentie vers la fin de sa première année de pratique jusqu’à une confiance grandissante au cours de sa deuxième année d’enseignement
In this essay, we review empirical, theoretical, and substantial grey literature in relation to immigrant youth and health promoting schools (HPS). We examine the health promotion concept to consider how it may inform the HPS model. Using Canada as an example, we examine current immigrant youth demographics and define several key terms including immigrant, youth, and health. Our review highlights important knowledge gaps related to the role of education and migration as antecedents to immigrant youth health and wellbeing as well as qualitative and educational research approaches. We conclude by providing recommendations for future immigrant youth research in the context of HPS.
During pandemic school closures, preservice teachers designed activity plans to support the at-home learning of children in early elementary grades and recognized parents as vital to supporting their children’s learning. This article uses data from a multiple case study of preservice teachers’ planning during an alternate practicum. Drawing on models of family vibrancy and parent engagement that arise from funds of knowledge and parent knowledge theories, we highlight how preservice teachers included parents in reciprocal and democratic ways that honoured diverse family’s contexts and their knowledge of their children. Results illustrate the importance of asset-oriented, flexible pedagogies that include meaningful parent partnerships both during and beyond the pandemic.
Becoming effective teachers is dependent upon a variety of factors intersecting with early career teachers’ beginning teaching experiences. This paper provides a glimpse into ways in which four early career secondary school teachers began to embed literacies into their teaching practices in content areas and how their approaches shifted between the final term of their teacher education program in 2013 and their first year of teaching in 2014. The authors explore three factors that may shape the practices of early career teachers, with disciplinary specialties in science, math, social studies, and other content areas, as they persist in infusing their teaching practice with literacy strategies over the first year of teaching, or alternatively discontinue using these strategies. These factors are coursework in a Literacy in the Content Areas course during their teacher education program, teaching context, and disciplinary specialty.Keywords: early-career teachers; secondary teachers; content-area literacy; disciplinary literacy; pedagogical content knowledge
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